More baby shower pics

Blogger wouldn't let me post all of the pics I had from the shower, so here are the rest:

Our First Baby Shower

As the title implies, we had our very first baby shower today. We lead a small group of college age students at church and one of the families involved in that group wanted us to have a shower before the college students left town for the summer. It was very sweet and a lot of fun. When we pulled up to their house, they had a bunch of balloons tied on the mailbox that were black and red with a big ladybug balloon amongst them. (I took a picture of the balloons once we brought them home. We played two games. One of those was a Mad Libs-style game. The other one had me and Ryan versus another couple who is also expecting. The husbands were blind-folded and the wives fed them baby food and they were to guess what the food was. Ryan ended up winning. :) I guess that's only appropriate!

The shower was mainly a diaper shower, but we got some other gifts too, so I'm posting pics of everything. The books were given to Ryan by my friend Alison's husband, Mark, and they are hilarious! Everyone was passing them around and cracking up laughing! I love all of the sweet little outfits that we are going to be able to put her in this summer as well. The basket with the red polka dot ribbon was from the host family of the party (I hate to say hostesses, since one of the people was a guy!). Inside are diapers (that everyone was able to write messages on) as well as some baby necessities like lotion, sippy cup, etc.

I feel very blessed to have such great friends and am so thankful to everyone that came and for their sweet presents. :) It definitely makes you feel special when people are willing to spend their money to buy you things.

We are all the way up to 27 weeks now. I'm posting a picture of myself. I told Ryan the other day that I am noticing that some of my shirts are not as long as they used to be and his response was, "Yeah, you're getting bigger every week." :) It made me laugh!

New Baby Pics

Today was another doctor's appointment, combined with a sonogram. We also got to do the 4D sonogram and I have several pictures from that. It was very cool to see what her features are looking like. I've posted my two favorite pictures from today. Check out those sweet little juicy lips in the sepia colored picture! :) Oh, and I was able to see the glowing lines that everyone has told me about that prove she's a girl! :)

We also went today and put a crib and a glider rocker on layaway at a store here in Longview. So yay! Maybe when she arrives she'll actually have a place to sleep. Haha.

In other "makes you feel inadequate" news, we went today and set up a registry at Target. Wow. I feel like I'm picking out all of this stuff, but I have no clue what I'm doing! I hope that's how everyone feels with their first baby. Even in my experience babysitting and with the stuff I know about babies, I still feel slightly overwhelmed. Like when we registered for our wedding, I pretty much knew what I was doing. I mean, how hard is it to pick out a toaster or a blender? And if we forgot something on our wedding registry, we're both adults and could either do without it or just get it at the store whenever. This is a registry for another person! A person we know nothing about, who is not the same as an adult. Requires different stuff for her care, never mind the fact that she's coming into this world with nothing and needs EVERYTHING!! I guess I'll just be praying that Karys is a patient little girl and doesn't mind going through a little trial and error with me. :) I guess it's like my mom told me: Don't worry about not knowing how to be a parent. You're baby doesn't know how to be a baby either.

Don't forget to tell me how precious you think my baby girl is! ;) Haha!

Results from Canton

I just realized that I never posted about my trip from Canton. First of all, sadly enough, I have no ladybug lamp. My sister and I went to every pavilion at First Monday (because we know we were in a pavilion when we found it) and found nothing. I was very disappointed. I went all day without buying anything, so at the end of the day we went to the indoor shopping area next door to where we were parked and I picked out a couple of things there. So I've posted pictures of what I bought. I got a bulletin board with ladybugs on it (that they put her name on for free...gotta love that!) and this cool light that they put a ladybug on. It may not be a lamp, but it's still pretty neat. And I had decided that I shouldn't buy anything that I am capable of making myself and I wouldn't be able to make either of these things. I'm a pretty crafty person, but I'm not an artist, which is why the bulletin board was a must have and I have no idea where to buy the glass cube, so I'm all about letting someone else make that for me! :)

Also, I went to Kohl's last week in hopes of finding myself some new shirts. I didn't end up with anything for myself, but they did have lots of clothes on sale for 90% off. So I actually got some things for Karys. I just tried to guess what size she might be in (because most of it is winter-y stuff) and since they were practically giving the stuff away, I won't feel bad if she doesn't end up fitting into it! I got this really sweet dress that was only like $3. The most expensive thing I got was a 3-piece set that was a fleece jacket, long-sleeved matching onesie and corduroy pants for only $6. :) Yay for sales!!

New pics

I realized this morning that this shirt in combination with the pants gave me that ever-sought after (at least for me) perfectly round pregnant tummy. So here is my pic. I am now about 23 1/2 weeks (24 weeks comes this Sunday). Things are still pretty good. I'm having to sleep with a pillow up underneath my side now. But I've gotten that pretty much all figured out so I won't complain. This weekend my sister and I are headed back to First Monday in Canton so I can get my coveted ladybug lamp (the lamp that is they center of design for her room). I'm very excited to stock up on some loot! :)